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G. A. MOSHER.

BUTTON SETTING MAGHINE.

No. 309,080. Patented Dee.- 0, 1884.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

(moron A. MOSHER, or TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR'OF one-H LF TO ALBERT -W. HAM,

or SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

EPECIPIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,080, dated December 9,1884.

Application filed April 9, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may conccrm Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MosHER, a resident of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of Newflork, have invented ccrtain new and useful Improvements in Button-Setting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in button-setting machines, and more particular] y that class of machines, in which a button and fastening-staple are held by one member or slotted jaw, while the staple is forced through the fabric and clinched or set thereon by a- The object of my invention is to provide such machines with a device by means of which the buttons and fasteners pendent-therefrom are automatically fed from a chute to the jaws of the machineand secured therein in a position to be attached by said jaws to the leather or fabric.

Said invention consists, first, in providing the slotted jaws with a chute, through which the buttons and pendent fasteners slide into the slot of the jaw; second, in providing the slotted jaw with a stop, against which suecessive buttons and fasteners slide and are stopped at a point opposite the setting-die; third, in providing a mechanism for adjusting and securing a button and pendent fastener in said jaw by lifting the lower end of the chute from the jaw; fourth, in providing said slotted jaw with an aperture opening into its slot and adapted to permit the fastener-prongs to slide by force of gravity down through said aperture to occupy a position beneath the slot; fifth, in providing at or near the bottom of said aperture :1. stop to prevent the points of any fastener from passing through said aperture before the points of'gthe preceding fastener have been set upon the fabric.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view, viewed from above, of the slotted-jaw divested e to plate A by screws, as shown.

of its attachments. Fig. 2 is a side view of a complete machine. Fig; 3 is a view in perspective of a steel plateadapted to forin the slotted end of the upper slotted jaw. Fig. 4 is a top side view of the lower end of the button-chute. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the inachine as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is the same, except that the jaws are shown open and thebuttons and-fasteners are not shown. Fig.

'7 is a view in perspective of a device for adjusting and securing the buttons and fasteners in the slotted jaw, also practically forming an extension of the chute. Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively front and side elevationsof the .chute extended at the lower end to perform the duties required of the device shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 10 is a viewinperspectiveof the pivoted frame which supports the chute shown in Figs. 8 and 9, also shown in side elevation in' Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is an'enlarged view in perspective of the lower end of chute shown in Figs..8 and 9. r Fig. 12 is a crossseetion of the chute without the flanges. Fig. 13is a cross-section of the chute, taken at broken line :0 y in-Fig. S.

My'improved device for automatically feeding the buttons and staples is equally applicable to setting-machines operated by hand, foot, or steam power, though I prefer t0,einploy foot orsteam power.

A is a bed-plate adapted to be fixed upon a bench or other suitable support, and is provided with the slotted projections a, constituting the upper jaw, having the slot 0 adapted to support a button, I), and its, pendent staears B, upon which are fulcrumed the lower member orjaw, 0, working between and guided by the downwardly-projecting arms 1'), upon the lower ends of which is pivoted the operating-lever E, connected with the jaw O by the pivoted links F. The jaw Cis provided with the wedge-shaped spreading-die G, forspreading the staple S, which is afterward set by the upper surface of jaw G. The upper 'slotted jaw, a, may be integral with bed-plate A, asshown in- Fig. 1; but I prefer to eonstruetit of a separate piece of steel, H,.and attach it l'he upper jaw is also provided with the aperture J, extending through the same and opening into The plate is also provided with the slot 0. This aperture is adapted to receive one end of chute K, which extends upward therefrom in an angular direction, as shown, and to permit the fasteners to pass down through the same to the lower side of the slotted jaw, while the buttons pass onto their proper position on the upper side of thejaw. The chute may be of any desired cross-sectional form, provided it has a slot, i, for receiving the button-eye c and the ways 9 9, upon which the button slides, though I prefer to give it the form shown in Figs. 12 and 13, either with or without the flanges g. It may be of any desired length, and may be filled to any desired height with buttons and fasteners pendent from the buttmreyes, as,shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The plate A is also provided with the ears J J, to which is pivoted the arm m, upon the end of which is fixed the springstop and adjuster P. This spring-stop P, as shown in Figs. 2, 5, 6, and 7, is made of a strip of metal bent to a circular form, the ends being provided with projections, which meet to form the stop (1 at the end of the open slot 12, the latter forming an extension of slot 1' in the chute, and located in thesame vertical plane occupied by the slot 0 in the jaw; or, as shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 11, the spring-stop P is integral with the chute itself, and fornied by providing the extended.traeks g of the chute with projections at their lower ends to form the stop q, the contiguous end of slot 2' in the chute performing the offices of slotn in 1 the eircular'spring. As the buttons and fastto the fabric.

eners travel along the chute they will enter slots at and c and advance to the stop q, formed by the projecting portions of .the ends of spring P, at which point the button and.fast-' ener are directly over the die G in the lower jaw, and in the proper position to be attached Power is then applied to the lever E, and the lower jaw, G, elevated from the position shown in Fig. 6 but the spring 0,

attached to G and extending up through ap erture' I in plate A,'i1nmediately acts upon pivoted arm at to raise spring 1, which lifts the button and draws the fastener securely up into the arched slot 0 of the jaw, where it is adjusted and firmly held in position to pierce the-fabric as the lower jaw forces the latter up against the fastener-prongs, and be set thereon by the die G and jaw Gwhen the jaws are closed. .After the button is thus attached to the fabric, the jaws are opened again to the position shown in Fig. 6, whereupon spring 0 ceases to act upon arm at, and spring P falls by its own weight or with the assistance of spring S upon the slotted jaw. The button is then easily withdrawn from the spring P and jaw a. by a slight pull upon the fabric, which forces the ends of the spring apart, and permits the eye of the button to pass the stop qand escape from the spring between its separated ends. NVhen the attached button is withdrawn, the next button which was contiguous in the chute to the one withdrawn imto keep the buttons within stop the button to be attached in mcdiately advances by force of gravity to take its place in the slotted spring and jaw, when it in turn is set upon the'fabric, the operation being repeated so long as there remain buttons and fasteners in the chute. The chute can be easily supplied with buttons provided with fasteners by inserting them at one end of the slot 1', the eye of the button resting in the slot, the button on the tracks 9, and the fasteners hanging from the button eyes heneath the slot. ciently to cause the button to slide by force of gravity against the stop q, resting one against another in the slot 1'. The stop 1 set'ves the proper position to meet the die in the lower jaw.' I am thus enabled, by filling a chute of considerable capacity at times of leisure, to quickly attach a set of buttons to a pair of shoes or other garment for a waiting customer.

Several chutes may be filled with buttons at convenient times, and a filled one substituted for an empty one in the machine until all are emptied; or the buttons and fasteners can be easily and quickly slid from afilled chute into the empty one in the machine.

The bottom of aperture J in the slotted jaw is provided with a stop, a, to prevent the points of a fastener frpm passing through before the points of the preceding staple have been set. If a second fastener were permitted to hang down below the jaw while the first was being set, the fabric might strike .it and bend it or disarrange the position of the chute. The stop a may be a projecting or bended edge of the aw itself, or of, the chute, or an the chute and to attachment upon either, as shown The spring P may be an extension of the chute itself, as shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 11, and the chute attached to the angle-arms m and a by flanges t on the chute, as shown.

In the one case the chute .K is independent of the pivoted arm at, passing down throughopening I), as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 7 In the other case the chute K is attached to' arm m and moves with it. The arms on and m are pivoted and operated in the same manner in both cases. Iv am thus able to provide a continuous chute, through which the buttons and fasteners slide with more certain movement to the stop 1 which operates in precisely the same manner as stop q, already described.

I am aware that it is not new to feed buttons without fiasteneis through an inclined chute to a button-setting machine, such as are employed to set a one-pronged fastener, neither member of such machines being provided with .a slot adapted to receive a button and a pendent fastener;

nor is it new, to provide an inclined chute" for holding buttons and their fasteners, to be taken therefrom by hand, and I do not broadly claim the same.

. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a button-setting machine provided with a slotted member for holding a button and fastener pendent therefrom, and another member for setting said fastener uponfabric,

the, combination, with said I slotted member,

of a slotted chute and mechanism, substantially as' described, for holding the chute in a position such that its slot will be coincident with the slot in said member, for the purpose of automatically feeding buttons having pendent fasteners into said slotted member, substantially as described. a v

2; In a button-setting machine provided with'two members, a and C, the combination of slot 0 and spring P, providedwith slot at and stopq, for the purpose of controlling the f position 'of a button-fastener between said members, substantially as described.

3. n abutton-setting machine provided with two members one for holding a button and fastener and the. other for setting the fast-,

- ener-abutton and fastener conveying chute provided at or near one end with the springstop, in combination with said holding member, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, in a button-setting ma; chine, of slotted jaw .a, setting-Jaw G, chute K, spring P, arm m, and spring 0, substana mechanism, substantially as described, for

transporting a button having a pendent fastener across said aperture to and upon said slot, and permitting said pendent fastener to pass through said aperture and under said slot, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

6. Ina machine for setting buttons, and provided with two members-one for holding 5 a button and its fastener and the other with a die for setting said fastener-the combination of slot 0, chute K, aperture J, and stop a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of .April, 1884.

GEO; A. MOSHER.

Witnesses:

' W. H; HOLLISTER, J r.,

N. DAVENPORT. 

